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"The Real Estate Agent's Goldmine"
By George Paukert, "Mr. Real Estate"
Thank you for reading this free report. The content is very important, as long as your future is important to you. It can change your life, your business, your success, and your financial well-being.
Yes, you have a gold mine at your fingertips!
At one time I was just like you, going after listings and buyers. I was good. I took all my listings at a minimum of 7% commission. I was definitely making the most money I could from my efforts as a real estate agent. But at the same time I realized I could make much more money with much less effort by using my real estate knowledge, information in the computer, and my advertising and selling skills by investing in real estate than just working for a commission. (Don't worry ... you don't need to use your own money.) I would like to share this information with you.
What is your future? There are basically only 4 choices ...
What's the logical change for any real estate professional? The answer is #4 above. Use your knowledge, your contacts, and your skills to make more money for you! You can do business as usual, and at the same time, start investing in properties!
I don't want you to change what you are doing right now. Just use the ideas I share with you. Of course, if you sell $100 million in real estate a year or 200 homes a year, this report may not be for you. But, if your business is not what you want or if you are tired or bored of the routine in real estate, then read every word of this report very carefully.
There is also another important factor you may not know about, especially if you are in the business only 1 or 2 years. It is called "burnout" or also known as the "7 year itch." It doesn't matter how much money you make or how successful you are, at one point you just have to make a change.
Do yourself a favor and read this report with an "open mind." You'll find ideas how to look for future listings. I used to do it and it worked for me! So, if you care about business and your future is very important to you, read it all, don't skip anything, and ACT!
Every day I receive questions from agents who also want to become real estate investors. They ask me, "How can I go from being a real estate agent to a savvy investor?"
If you are a busy agent who does plenty of transactions - and I hope you are - just go back into your memory about them. I'm sure there were many times (I experienced this during my real estate career) that the seller was highly motivated, ready and willing to "give" the house to anybody. There were times that the seller had to come out of pocket at closing. And there were times when your commission killed the deal because there was not enough money to close and the seller didn't have the extra cash. These were all times when you could have bought the house - just about for the asking!
I had many opportunities like that. It took me a while to realize that I could make much more money by buying the house than I could by being paid a commission for listing and/or selling it. This is the gold mine!
Here is a true story that happened to me. I used to fax between 5 - 10 offers a day to various agents and FSBOs. I played the numbers game, but only on specially selected homes - not just any house. By making 250 - 350 offers a month, I knew something would stick and I would be able to buy some houses. (Below I'll teach you how to do it so your rejection rate is down to a bare minimum.)
After faxing an offer to one agent, she called me that she was totally against "creative financing" and there was no way, no how she would agree with the offer for her out of town seller. However, she purposely took the trip to my office just to let me know that my creative financing "won't work."
Now, this happened at the beginning of December. We got into a discussion in the office and she mentioned she was going to lose the $10,000 down payment on her new home which she was supposed to close on in the middle of December because her home had not sold! She couldn't rent the house because she would not be able to qualify for the new loan. (A few years back it was much tougher to get a new loan than it is today.)
I told her I thought I had a solution for her and she would be able to move into her new home before Christmas - but it involved creative financing. At this point she was ready to listen to anything! A Contract of Sale was looking very attractive to her ... She was highly motivated NOT to lose $10,000.
At the time I was highly involved with the business of being a real estate agent as well as an investor, so I frequently worked partnerships with my good friend, Robert Allen. (Robert had his own company that could do the collection of mortgage payments and pay the underlying lenders.) Since Robert had an office in the same complex, I called him to come to the office regarding a good real estate deal.
She didn't have much equity in the house - only $4,000. Robert said he would give her $1,000 down if she would carry a $3,000 note, interest accrued, to be paid when the house was refinanced. She agreed.
Let me describe the house. It was a standard 3/2/2 - 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, 2 Car Garage - in Green Valley, a superior area of town. The interest rate on her underlying loan was very good which made for a low monthly payment. These were signs for making lots of money on this deal.
There was one minute of panic when she described the house. She told us she had green carpet! (As an agent, you know that green carpet and selling a house usually don't go together.) What she didn't tell us was that it was a luxury high-pile carpet in a gorgeous forest green. The windows had expensive plantation shutters. The grounds were nicely landscaped with lots of rose bushes.
I'm sure you know what happened next. We started running ads for the house the next day. In four days we found a buyer with $8,000 down, a new contract on the house and making residual income of $180 from the monthly payment!
As I said before, odd situations happened. Here was an agent who disliked creative financing. She wouldn't do it for her sellers, but when she herself was desperately afraid of losing $10,000 and her new home, anything was OK. She no longer worried about a Contract of Sale. She no longer worried that the house would be resold. She was happy that she found a solution to her problem!
There is a lesson to be learned here. Even if other agents criticize you for doing creative financing, it's best to "keep your cool." If I had gone into a huff when she criticized me for making the offer on her listing, Robert and I would have lost out on some very good money.
I hope you realize why I brought a third party into this transaction. Out of principle she would not sell the house to me, but "giving" it away almost for free to my friend - that was OK.
Now, here's Part 2 to the story. About a year or so after we sold the house, my wife and I were on vacation. Only my broker-partner in the real estate office knew where we were and how to reach us. Well, Robert called him and said it was an emergency and he had to reach me. My partner caved in and gave Robert the hotel's phone number. When we got back to our room that afternoon, we found a message: "Thiesfield skipped! What are we going to do?" (Thiesfield was the name of the buyer who bought the house.)
I picked up the phone and left a message for Robert on his voice mail: "That's fantastic! We'll sell it again and make MORE money!"
And we did! In one week we found another buyer. We got another $8,000 for the down payment. We kept the monthly payment and interest rate the same. And this buyer did fulfill the contract with no problems. When he refinanced, the agent got paid the rest of her equity, and Robert and I split another $7,000.
Robert and I never had any of our own money into this deal. The first buyer gave us $8,000 down. We gave the seller (agent) $1,000 and we split $7,000 ($3,500 each). From the second buyer's down payment, we split another $8,000 ($4,000 each). On top of it, we made $180 monthly income.
The true story above just shows you that you have to keep you eyes open and listen to people's problems. You may go on a listing appointment and find out that the seller is in the military, and is being transferred 3,000 miles away in 72 hours. He doesn't know what to do with the house.
This happened to me many times. Especially today, the military is on high alert. When they get orders, they may have to go within hours. These are the times when you can benefit. Just listen to people's problems. Nothing else. Since I have been in real estate - fortunately or unfortunately - we have been at war. First it was the Gulf War, then Panama, Haiti, Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and now Iraq again. When the military get orders, they have to go. It's an ideal situation for you to help the military people and also help yourself.
Of course, you are used to saying that you will list the house and help him sell it in a hurry. This is the time to take ACTION and buy the property for peanuts!
Just keep in mind, you very rarely get a house with "nothing" down." In all the years I have been doing this, I bought only two houses with absolutely no money down. However, you can certainly get many houses with a few thousand dollars now and a few thousand dollars later. I made most of my deals that way.
You have to give the seller some money. Why?
I realized a few thousand dollars up front makes the seller very agreeable to the deal - especially in the position of being a real estate agent. I also realized it was quick money and that each house generated an average of $35,000 in income.
If you go to my website, Million $$$ Secrets, you can see the money I made on just one home and the process I used. (You'll find the link at the end of this report.) Compare this money to making a measly 7% commission. What I am trying to teach you is that if another agent sells the house, you may only make $5,000 versus a potential $35,000!
The safest way to exist in business today is to have residual income. There is no better feeling - not even putting money in the bank. Residual income is always there - the checks keep coming in every month. Trust me on that one.
As far as residual income from your real estate investments is concerned, you should be able to make between $140 - $250 a month from each house. When you buy and re-sell 20 houses, that can give you around $4,000 a month. Well, $4,000 a month can be very important when times are tough. It pays your mortgage - if you have one - and other living expenses.
How difficult is it to make the change from agent to investor?
You just have to learn what to look for in buying the house when the opportunity presents itself. Just keep your eyes and ears open ... listen to the sellers! If you are in an office where the broker does not allow you to do your own deals, or wants a cut of your profits - even if you sell the house FSBO - I suggest you move to a different office. Why should you change offices? You have to be in control of the transaction and be secure you won't get screwed by an unscrupulous broker. There is too much money involved when you buy your own investments. Twenty houses not only gives you $4,000 income a month, they also represent approximately $700,000 in profit when the notes are refinanced. This is too much money to gamble with. Just a reminder, my friend. All the creative financing I teach you is perfectly legal. After a while you will see that the change from agent to investor will happen gradually. You'll find opportunities to buy houses - just ACT on them. Nothing else. And use the "Mr. Real Estate Monthly" as a guide. Let me tell you something. Like the house in Green Valley that I talked about earlier, when you put a deal together like that, you'll feel incredibly good about yourself. You'll say to yourself, "Good grief. I just bought that beautiful house for $1,000. I am GOOD!" You will feel like Superman because you know you did something that none of your friends could do ... since most of your friends only own the house they live in, if that. Along with controlling lots of houses, comes more advantages.
Times are changing!
So, even if you don't want to buy and sell homes as an investor, you must learn how to creatively list unsalable homes and get buyers into homes without qualifying. If you learn how to do that, you will profit tremendously while your associates are going out of business in droves. If you don't believe me, ask agents who have been in the business 15 years or more. The real estate "earthquakes" can be dangerous to your business - if you don't know what to do. There were times in California when nothing sold for years. Not that long ago in Texas sellers were giving houses away and still had no takers. A friend of mine bought up a bunch of houses, boarded them up, paid the taxes, and waited a few years until the market changed. And he made a tidy profit. Almost every state has gone through it's own real estate "earthquake." Keep your eyes and ears open. Don't become complacent and think it can't happen in your state. 50 states, 50 different markets. And within each state are areas that will be hit hard when the "bubble" bursts and other that won't even know there is a real estate bubble. For example, some cities in California have an average sales price of $1,1,00,000. This is not your average market. And this is not your investment market. Your market is in the range of homes the average buyer can afford. I recently relocated to Florida. Although I have only been here a short time, it seems to me there are many "normal" markets like Jacksonville, Gainesville, Port St. Lucie, and parts of West Palm Beach. I don't know much about the west coast of Florida, but I learned from talking to people in the area, there are many "normal" markets there as well. In a "normal" market, you won't see spiraling increases in home prices - the appreciation will be slower but steady. While driving to Florida, I stopped in several cities along the way and checked out the real estate markets. One good market that, in my opinion, won't be hurt by the real estate "bubble" is El Paso, TX. Prices were in line and FHA and VA loans were readily available. To my surprise, a local Realtor ran a full page ad in one of the real estate magazines, "No Qualifying, No Credit Needed!" It reminded me of my own ads!!! It really depends on where you are located how badly you will be affected when the real estate bubble bursts. Your area may not feel any impact at all. I recently sent out some e-mail messages about the real estate bubble and what I think is going to happen. I got the most replies ever - going in all directions.
I think there is an simple explanation. Everything is cyclical. Prices go up and prices come down. Nothing goes up indefinitely, nor do prices stay down indefinitely. There are always corrections in every market. The real estate "bubble" will be different in every market. So it really depends on where you are located what will happen when the "bubble" bursts.
Recipe For Successful Investing
Start working on the ideas I shared with you - TODAY! Yes, I used to print out 6,000 listings (overnight) every two weeks - and reviewed them all! It takes practice to scan them all, but in time you'll learn to do it fast. Reviewing all those listings has another advantage. Your subconscious mind will retain information you may need for buyers who have special requests. When a car collector is looking for a home, you'll remember the house with a 10 car garage. Or the cabinet maker looking for a professional workshop. You get the idea.
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Why did I create "Mr. Real Estate Monthly?"Real estate is where it starts! Since I have done it, using the exact same system I'll be teaching you, I know you can do it, too. You absolutely don't need to put 20% down and qualify for a new loan to be a real estate investor! The information I share with you is totally proprietary, fresh, unique and written personally by me - no ghost writers here! Since 1989 I have specialized in buying and selling homes with ...
There are many ways to buy investment properties using modern, up-to-date creative financing that is absolutely legal. The proof of my program is very simple. Go to my website, Million $$$ Secrets, (the link is at the end of this report) and you will see exactly how the program works. There is plenty of free information there. You will also see explanations why certain things don't work. My mission is very simple. I want everyone to learn - who WANTS to - how to buy homes using creative financing and none of your own money. You can start TOMORROW! I know it can be done. It's not that difficult as long as you have the desire and apply yourself. How many houses can you buy? There is no limit - 1, 2, 5, 10, or 100. The only limit is the limit you put on yourself! Some of my subscribers own 350+ homes ... using my ideas, paperwork, and my system. Obviously, my system works. And it is the only legal system that really works!
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